Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-26
HON. Berry vRooMAN.
Member of the Senate from the Seven
teenth DistrIc., Alameda.

Member of the Senate from the Seven
teenth DistrIc., Alameda.
Hon. Henry Vrooman is admittedly the
brainy man of the Senate. He represents
the Seventeenth Senatorial District and has
his home in Oakland, Alameda county.
He was born in Iitchfeld, Mich, in 1874.
He came to California in 1856, and his
career since then has been one of remark
able activity and full of shifting scenes.
He has risen to the forefront of his party
from the ranks of common laborer. He
has toiled in agriculture, worked at the
forge. served in the hard life of butcher,
and finally by resolute will and hard study
and rigid discipline gained fine education
and rank at the bar among the very
best legal minds of the State.
Among his earlier efforts in the law
was his service as Deputy District Attorney
for Alameda county and Deputy City At
torney for the city of his home, Oakland.
His ability, vigor and courageous perform
| ance of duty in these positions led the peo-
pie to elect him City Attorney of Oakland,
and in 1877 they advanced him to the posi-
ton of District Attorney. In both posi-
tons he made deep impression upon the
public mind, and was recognized as one OF
| the most valuable of the rising men of the
State. In 1882 he was chosen Senator in
Alameda county, in 1884 was named a
Presidential Elector upon the ticket OF
| the Republican party, and in 1856
was by most significant vote and amid
lond acclaim again chosen State Sen
ator. Mr.. Vrooman's friends, during his
absence from his home on account of sick
ness, which compelled him to 60 abroad,
carried every precinct in his district for
him in the primaries, electing every dele
gate favorable to his candidacy, and he was
unanimously nominated for reelection
when the Convention met. notwithstand-
ing there was earnest opposition
from influences outside of the dis
trict In the election that followed
his majority was 200 more than the most
sanguine and wisest estimating of his
friends had claimed for him. At the time
he was sick at Highland Springs, and was
wholly unable to give the campaign
that attention due from candidates. In
In the present year he was the choice
of his party for the United States Senate,
and received the complimentary vote of the
minority in the Senate and the joint con-
vention. Mr.. Vroomen is man of re-
markable vitality and will power. Though
| beset with grave physical ills, his I'M
daunted will keeps him in the deepest and
| most rapid political currents of political
| life. He is essentially a far-seeing man
his president powers rising almost to the
| prophetic AS manager of men and
| measures he has few equals. He is fine
debater logical, concise. direct and fearless.
| He is one OF the few men whom all recog-
nize as leader, and who. the more
responsibility is heaped upon him,
appears to grow the stronger. OF
| judicial cast of mind, a clear thinker,
an accurate judge of men and the motives
| that actuate them, he commands place in
the party and the State councils of the
most enviable character. He is of domestic
| tastes, of strong personal magnetism, and
possesses the faculty of attaching his
| friends to him by inseparable bonds,
and commands at once the admira-
ton and respect of his opponents. 1t
| would not be extravagsnt to predict that
if physical strength and due lease of life is
granted him, he will rise to stations of the
loftiest distinction and most weighty trusts,
and this, as in all his past, by virtue of his
brain power, his self-control, far-sighted-
ness, his clear estimates of men, and his
undaunted courage. His integrity stands
unquestioned among men, and his personal
life is as clean aid chaste as his public
career is vigorous, prominent and pro-
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